Proverbs 6:12

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Summary

Proverbs 6:12

A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth.

Naughty

James 1:21

Walketh

General references

Matthew 15:18

Bible References

Naughty

The righteousness of the upright delivereth them, And in mischief the treacherous are captured.

An evil doer is attentive to lips of vanity, Falsehood is giving ear to a mischievous tongue.

And Eliab, his eldest brother, heareth when he speaketh unto the men, and the anger of Eliab burneth against David, and he saith, 'Why is this -- thou hast come down! and to whom hast thou left those few sheep in the wilderness? I have known thy pride, and the evil of thy heart -- for, to see the battle thou hast come down.'

In the one basket are figs very good, like the first-ripe figs, and in the other basket are figs very bad, that are not eaten for badness.

wherefore having put aside all filthiness and superabundance of evil, in meekness be receiving the engrafted word, that is able to save your souls;

Walketh

Frowardness is in his heart, devising evil at all times, Contentions he sendeth forth.

To deliver thee from an evil way, From any speaking froward things,

Turn aside from thee a froward mouth, And perverse lips put far from thee,

The fear of Jehovah is to hate evil; Pride, and arrogance, and an evil way, And a froward mouth, I have hated.

Because the wicked hath boasted Of the desire of his soul, And a dishonest gainer he hath blessed, He hath despised Jehovah.

The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit, He ceased to act prudently -- to do good.

Mischiefs doth thy tongue devise, Like a sharp razor, working deceit.

Lo, they belch out with their mouths, Swords are in their lips, for 'Who heareth?'

They do corruptly, And they speak in the wickedness of oppression, From on high they speak.

Brood of vipers! how are ye able to speak good things -- being evil? for out of the abundance of the heart doth the mouth speak.

and of your own selves there shall arise men, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.

and at the same time also, they learn to be idle, going about the houses; and not only idle, but also tattlers and busybodies, speaking the things they ought not;

for there are many both insubordinate, vain-talkers, and mind-deceivers -- especially they of the circumcision --

and the tongue is a fire, the world of the unrighteousness, so the tongue is set in our members, which is spotting our whole body, and is setting on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by the gehenna.

General references

but the things coming forth from the mouth from the heart do come forth, and these defile the man;